Absolute Power and Contingency: on the Theological Structure of Meillassoux’s Speculative Philosophy

Although Quentin Meillassoux’s philosophy desires to be postmetaphysical and posttheological, I argue in this paper that it remains structurally theological. Specifically, I argue that Meillassoux’s speculative thesis on the contingency of nature and its laws repeats at a formal level the medieval t...

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Main Author: Phelps, Hollis (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands [2015]
In: Sophia
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 343-362
RelBib Classification:FA Theology
KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages
NBC Doctrine of God
TK Recent history
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Duns Scotus
B God’s ordained power
B Omnipotence
B Correlationism
B God’s absolute power
B Thomas Aquinas
B Metaphysics
B Speculative Philosophy
B Contingency
B Hyper-Chaos
B Quentin Meillassoux
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